What is it about?
This paper describes how the redesigned AP U.S. History course and exam encourages students to develop their historical thinking skills when studying the Gilded Age and Progressive Era periods of the U.S. History survey course.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
The redesigned AP U.S. History course is part of an important effort to rethink how to make history education both more meaningful and rigorous to high school students. The new course framework gives teachers considerable flexibility in how to approach the periods of U.S. history, while a new exam design rewards students who can reason and write in depth about the past.
Perspectives
This paper is part of a symposium on the redesigned AP U.S. History course in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. These are particularly challenging periods to teach in the traditional survey course, but can be made very rich and rewarding for students and teachers alike.
Dr Lawrence Charap
College Board
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: TEACHING AND THINKING ABOUT THE GILDED AGE AND PROGRESSIVE ERA IN THE REDESIGNED AP U.S. HISTORY COURSE, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, July 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1537781415000109.
You can read the full text:
Resources
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
